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WBSM presents the very Richard show streaming live on WBSM.com and the WBSM app call 508-996-0500 text us using app chat on the WBSM app now the very Richard show it is 207 on a Friday thanks for being here appreciate it bunches and if you have not heard yet the team of Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner heading back to Pakistan tomorrow for discussions with the Iranians according to what's being reported by the White House the Iranians called and requested the talks so let's hope perhaps we're at a point now where things can start to move we'll see right you got to be optimistic of all the time I'm mentioning a piece that I wrote that's up on WBSM.com today it's on our Facebook pages as well on my personal Facebook page and all of the social media that WBSM touches during the course of the day so you can check it out and appreciate if you would and it's about Governor Maura Healey and to me it's something that I find quite disturbing because it's a trend that we see with the Democrat Party and we've seen it for quite some time now and it's a seems to be like a a summons for violence and actually I think that's exactly what it is you know the Democrats do that all the time they want to put the idea of being violent in your mind and then people go out and they're violent but Healey is suggesting that there may be violence before the midterm elections in November and of course she's blaming Trump for that Trump has a call for violence Trump hasn't threatened violence Maura Healey is the only one talking about violence but yet she's blaming Trump see how this works Healey appeared recently on WGBH Boston's public broadcasting station she made some rather bizarre accusations insinuating that Trump plans to quote steal the election now she said that a few times it's gonna steal the election she doesn't tell us exactly how this is gonna happen but nor does she provide any kind of proof or evidence nor do the chowder heads at WGBH or most of the media that cover the Statehouse even think to ask her what she means or offer an explanation of her comments anyway during that sit-down with GBH she said he's going to weaponize every aspect of the federal government to try to steal the election that's what's going to happen and I predict we're going to see some violence before the election just to give him an excuse to exercise emergency powers so what she is suggesting here is that somehow or another Trump is going to insinuate violence in order to exercise emergency powers to quote-unquote steal the election well who exactly is going to initiate this violence the Southern Law Foundation Antifa I mean the the no kings crowd who exactly is going to oh wait a minute those are all Democrat organizations right but Healey says that's going to happen and I predict we're gonna see some violence before the election just to give him an excuse to exercise emergency powers now more Healey was sitting across the counter for me or for that matter Donald Trump was sitting across the counter for me and I said yeah there's gonna be violence I predict we're gonna see some violence before the election I would be my first question would be whoa when where who is going to initiate this violence how is this going to manifest itself and where and and and how would that be used to steal the election but of course nobody at GBH thought that they just sit there in awe of Maura Healey in all of her Maura Healiness I wonder if she's wearing her her furry Duncan hat at the time by the way Healey is on the statewide ballot this fall right no proof no evidence to substantiate her claims I don't believe this was reported widely even though she again made the same just a couple of days later at the late March No King's Rally and Boston Common she repeated the same thing to the folks who turned out to see the dropkick Murphys Donald Trump is going to weaponize every agency in the federal government to steal the selection we'll see not just ice agents but all federal agents are in federal polling places she said now the media covered this then you know the media was all over the No King's Rally's like white on rice right any of those reporters covering that rally TV you know they were all there they were all updating it all day long Boston Globe was there Boston.com channel 25 channel 10 channel 4 channel 7 it's the other one I missed I know there's another one in Boston is 5 7 10 4 did I say 4 I know all of the TV was there all of the the tabloids the newspapers they were all there did anybody as more Healy was exiting the stage say excuse me governor have you got any evidence to back up what you're saying no nobody did and nobody really reported on any of this now when the governor says there's going to be violence I predict there's going to be violence before the election don't you think that that should make news shouldn't somebody have reported on that beside me so when Tim Dunn did try to get the governor to explain what she meant about stealing the election she told the Statehouse News Service well what do you think it would be if you actually turn the results of an election away from what they actually were that to me you can call it stealing you can call it erasing you can call it invalidating it it doesn't matter Healy said well yeah it does matter words matter Healy's not used to having push back there's nobody ever pushes back anything that she says they just write it up like gospel st. Maura st. Maura says so it's got to be true right Healy is running against Donald Trump that's what Liz Liz Warren did Liz Warren ran against a weak Jeff Deal I like Jeff Deal I think Jeff Deal is a super guy but he's not a tough candidate you want to take on Liz Warren you got to go out there and you got a you got to spit nails at her I mean if you because she is a she's a beast right she's loud she's shrill she's energetic for an old lady and Jeff Deal just didn't have it he didn't have it in the tank he was trying to be a gentleman and try to run a gentleman's race but indeed I don't think but Maura Healy is running against Donald Trump because she's got nothing to run on here what can you what can you bump point to you and say well this is this is the big accomplishment of Maura Healy give me just one thing that you can point to and say well this is you know Maura Healy did this Wow we're all better off for it was it dragging tens of thousands of illegal immigrants many of them criminals from the southern border up here to Massachusetts was it all the no-bid contracts was it giving the illegals a shelter remember in Roxbury when she kicked the kids and the old people out of the Roxbury Center so that she could put illegals in there took over hotels spent nearly five billion dollars on illegal immigrants while saying to senior citizens I've got to raise your prescription I got to put a tax on your prescriptions you got to put a tax on candy we got to put a tax on your excise tax that we shouldn't even be paying anyway what is Maura Healy done she threw a bunch of service charges on your utility bills driven the cost of a utilities like out of this stratosphere her administration is suing communities that don't want to build housing under the MBTA housing plan I I can't think of one thing positive the Maura Healy is done now one I mean usually you could say you know I'm not wasn't a big Charlie Baker fan either but you can you can point to some things that Charlie Charlie Baker ran a surplus Maura Healy blew the surplus you know I mean I would so she's got nothing when you got nothing you run against Trump you run away from what you've done and you go after jump but I don't know whether that's gonna happen you need to have whomever the Republican candidate is that runs against Maura Healy this year has to continue to bring the focus back to her and away from Trump because you know what she's gonna say Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump and these guys all love Trump they're all they're gonna put more Trump programs in they have to be able to go after her and all of the bad things that she's done for this state can they do it I don't know we're gonna find out right I suppose we're gonna find out 508-996-0500 is the number let's grab a call you're up next then WBSM good afternoon very happy sunny afternoon to you on a Friday my friend I gotta say a couple of things here I first ran for office in 1974 as a Republican money for state representative on the issue of taxes and unfunded mandates and I had Nixon I ran for office and I'm just gonna say this let me summarize Massachusetts Democrats have always whether they're running for County Treasurer run against the National Republican Party which has never polled well here in Massachusetts and I think that you know I kind of have this the Emperor has no clothes no of course not and it's it's it's the it's a standard playbook you know it's it's it's right there in the book the handbook on how to run but be clear on it and oh I might share your fifth of teak about her not you know challenging the several Republican candidates that there are the fact of the matter is no incumbent wants to elevate their opponent Tom O'Neill Tip O'Neill famously refused to debate any of his opponents over there's and Frank McNamara was a very up-and-coming conservative back in the day cornered him in a parking lot one day was channel 5 to a debate incumbents don't want to debate their opponents because it raises their profile so that's just kind of standard playbook for both parties and every office but I think you raise a valid point though and that we've had a couple of Democratic governors over the years and we had one forever and way too long after one day that was Mike Dukakis Deval Patrick was another one who was basically a DEI affirmative action governor and Maura Haley is just kind of the same thing you know same church different puke and she won largely because her opponent and kept the old friend of mine I worked out the same chin with him I've known him for years he got back into a corner as a Trump supporter and Trump has never gotten more than 35% of the vote but he never fought his way out of the corner and he didn't try he did the same he ran the same strategy he ran the same strategy against he ran the same strategy against Liz Warren and it didn't work I don't know why he didn't he didn't try a different strategy well all I'll say is who is his chief political advisor she ran both of those campaigns and lost them both and shame on her well I mean look Maura Haley's doing what Maura Haley has to do and you're right I mean this is nothing new this is again it's a page out of the playbook when your record sucks and things are going poorly under your administration you run against you run against the White House it's you know it's message Democrats have always done that yeah and in the myth of the myth of the suburban Democrat you know the Republicans party basically owned the suburbs of small towns the Rainhams the Berkeley's the Dighton's the Westport's you know the Carver's they owned them and then in the 70s because of Watergate these Democrats who had left the cities because their schools were terrible and every the taxes were too high and crime blah blah blah but they would come they would move down to small towns at Dartmouth Westport Fairhaven you know it's on it go down the list and they would run for something local there could be parking wreck it could be selectmen it could be school committee could be library trustee and then they wouldn't they then became the ground forces the grassroots of the Democratic Party who then stopped criticizing the Democratic Party within Massachusetts the state reps the state senators and their congressional candidates and it became a hegemonous one thing that they acted as a monolith but they always got away with it by saying well he's he's really more of a Republican than he is a Democrat but these were the apologists these were the vanguard of the national Democratic Party into the grassroots now all Maura Haley is doing is saying what do you want from governor me or a Trump supporter and that alone she's gonna win well I think I think you're I think you're not far from the truth there I think that she has every likelihood of winning at this time based on the fact that nobody is nailing her down on her own record and she's got a president in the White House who's not popular in Massachusetts he may be screamingly popular around most of the rest of the country but he's not popular here and it's it's not going to be very difficult for her to and you know it's back in the old days with abortion right you could be talking about you know the price of bread and the Democrats would throw up oh but this person is you know he's a he's a Republican and he's he's anti-choice and you know that would always score points or he's a war on women or whatever you know they used to do the same thing with seniors oh he's gonna cut your Medicare he's gonna take your Social Security benefits away and you're gonna be eating dog food before you know it and so on and so forth and but the Republicans have never learned in this state how to fight back against that that's why we've never had any real Republicans in this state not in modern times anyway I mean Charlie Baker was not a real Republican I don't know why he even ran as a Republican you should have ran as a Democrat because he wasn't a Republican and not by my standard of republicanism and you know the same thing with Bill Weld same thing with Salucci same thing with Jane Swift I mean these weren't real Republicans and so it's you know if you get out there and you run on a solid strong platform and fight like hell and remind everybody day in and day out about what Maura Healey has done to you and she's trying not to address these issues because she's you know she's trying to run against Trump in order to get elected I think you can pick up some some support there with the voters but you've got to be out there and you got to fight hard you know a lot of people are afraid to attack a woman right afraid to go after a woman well you can't do that because the media will be all over you know and then she sniffles a little or something I don't know but um so it's difficult but you've if you're a Republican in Massachusetts and you believe in your conservative values you get to get out there and you got to fight for him and you got to point out that Maura Healey stands in the way you know it's so funny you see these videos right on social media where people are going out and and you know some of these these new age journalists and they're going out and they're like well you know what about these remarks about I don't know the border bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah people oh that's horrible yeah assuming of course that it's Trump and then the reporter will say well wait a minute those statements were made by Hillary Clinton those are made by Barack Obama and they're like no sir you're making that up you're making it up but you know it's things that people agree with but they need to be told they need to understand and it's it's gonna be tough but whoever it is has got to get out there and not be afraid to mix it up with her and remind everybody just how horrible she's been for this state and how horrible she will but can you imagine another four more years of this oh my god quick break 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righty 232 on a Friday afternoon 508-996-0500 that's our number that's the sandpipers by the way a lot of people think that's Simon and Garfunkel but it's not sandpipers that's from the movie a sterile cuckoo with them Liza Minnelli went back when she was just a little thing I think that was her first film but it goes way back anyway welcome back to the program and yeah you got to love it you got to love this stuff right I love politics and I love people people our people yeah this comes from New York East Village residents in New York who voted for a mayor ma'am Donnie by a 40-point margin are now suing to stop a building in their neighborhood from becoming a temporary homeless shelter yeah all the socialists right with all the social causes and oh my god hey hey oh we gotta help the homeless and oh but you're gonna build a homeless shelter in my neighborhood yeah so they're suing right lawsuit filed with the New York City Supreme Court this week shows hesitation even among ma'am Donnie supporters about the cost of implementing some of his plans news of the lawsuit has prompted conservative mockery online with figures like senator Ted Cruz Republican of Texas noting the irony of ma'am Donnie's supporters turning on the socialist mayor oops senator Ted Cruz said in a post to X just simply oops no one is more not in my backyard than white progressives this community voted for ma'am Donnie in a landslide but don't want to live with the consequences says Michael Henry a former New York attorney general candidate not shocked said senator Rick Scott of Florida election district 45 the area that includes East Village voted for ma'am Donnie in the 71 point 1% victory over independent candidate Andrew Cuomo who garnered just 26% even so residents joining the village organization for the integrity of community engagement in its suit against the city after ma'am Donnie announced plans earlier this year to turn a building on East Third Street into a citywide intake shelter to house homeless adult men the filing argues the city fast-tracked the process without proper environmental and legal safeguards it challenges the city's hastily made and illegally invalid decision to locate a new citywide homeless adult male intake center at 8 East Third Street without following any of the legal requirements and must precede such a significant and consequential decision the filing says you didn't tell us we were gonna have to live with homeless people in our neighborhood next to be putting illegal immigrants here kind of remind you of the same reaction when Governor DeSantis sent a plane load of Hispanic immigrants to Martha's Vineyard right now the Democrats turned out Oh Teodoro Brown man now get the hell off of this island they weren't there long they were there what 24 hours before Governor Charlie Baker got the phone calls they were gone zoom lickety-split they were out of there put him in an air hangar right on that I think on the Cape wasn't it yeah just gotta love these liberals they're all for these ideas until well until it creeps into their life so they have to everybody else should have to deal with it I always get a kick out of Kim Driscoll you know the lieutenant governor Kim Driscoll when Maura Healey was shepherding illegal aliens up to Massachusetts and we ran out of space for them Kim Driscoll comes on the media says you must have a suite of rooms in your house open a suite of rooms in your house and take these people in say yeah up yours you take them in she didn't take anybody in now people in New Bedford the same what the hell is a suite of rooms what's a suite of rooms have you got a suite of rooms I don't have a suite of rooms that's how why to touch these these liberal Democrats are with it with normal people are you folks listening to me right now down you know down at Oconee Street or have you got a suite of rooms that you can open up for some of these illegal immigrants suite of rooms it's laughable it's absolutely classic that's what I'll never forget but you know the Republicans are just as bad at times you know when when they make rules that that apply to everybody else except them like when Karen Pulido Charlie Baker is lieutenant governor oh nobody should have no graduation parties for during kovat no graduation parties and then she gets caught going at two yeah you know I mean hello it's like when mayor Beetlejuice out in Chicago it's caught getting your hair done everything's closed no beauty salons well mayor why are you getting your hair done well I'm on CNN every now and then I need to look good I remember when I was a kid my mother was poor my parents were poor you know she my mother and the the neighborhood gals would get together and they'd dye each other's hair and put them up in curlers and then do all that kind of stuff cuz they couldn't afford to go to the to the hairdresser you've probably been there right do you know somebody grew up that way or whatever I don't know not mayor Beetlejuice though or Nancy Pelosi remember Nancy Pelosi another Democrat do as I say not as I do she got caught going to her hairdresser too everything's closed but not for me it doesn't the rules are only for you not for me oh yeah that's power that's the powerful that's when power absolutely corrupts remember the the old expression absolute power corrupts absolutely my father used to say that when I was a kid and I knew he didn't make it up you make I did I don't remember who said it but somebody said it a lot smarter than the two of us and now but he would say that all the time and and it's so true power it's what these people strive for is power control over you over your life over what you can do and what you can't do if you go to church on Easter Sunday well we're gonna send the police in to make sure you're not there Wow it's power we're gonna tell you we I mean I have never you know as somebody's been on the planet for 68 years and a resident of this country my entire life I have never experienced anything quite like that locking people up the people were arrested in this country but even right here in the city people were threatened with jail if they went to church to worship God is so a mayor or a governor has the authority to tell you how when or where you can worship your God but they did it so I would Tim Dunn was on the program in the last hour we were talking about his interview with Charlie Baker or attempted an interview with Charlie Baker asking Baker do you have any regrets no no regrets maybe Charlie Baker when he would come out with the these idiotic statements like well you know if you're having the Thanksgiving dinner at your house grandma grandpa should sit in the yard and bring their own utensils and bring their own food remember that the idiocy that's booed forward from our elected officials during that we did about keeping you safe it was about power telling you what you could and couldn't do progressives are drunk with that kind of power I can remember doing my program from an undisclosed bunker because the studios closed I had the option of command nobody threatened me with if you come in you're gonna be arrested or fired or anything like that I had the option to come in so it's probably safer for you to stay home okay fine they set me up at home but I can remember people calling my program in such distress a loved one was in the hospital a loved one was not going to last long but yet they could not go and say goodbye to that loved one they couldn't attend a wake people were calling me telling me they could not go and visit their mother in the nursing home one I'll never forget one woman told me I was out on the lawn at the window trying to communicate with my mother and then security came out chased me away at a nursing home another woman called and said you know we are attending mass it's not a Catholic mass it was a I didn't recall our church is way out in the boonies and nobody probably thinks about us so we still get together but secretly imagine that going secretly to your church to worship in the Easter season or at any time any day power liberals are great they want power over everything you do they want to tell you what kind of furnace you can have in your basement what kind of light bulb you can use what kind of car you got to drive power it's all about power they tell you and usually they do not remember Congress right the Democrat controlled Congress that passed Obamacare that applied to all of us but not to them they were exempt from Obamacare you can keep your doctor when in reality you couldn't but they kept their doctors didn't they power control it's what it's all about got to break that mold 508-996-0500 we're coming right this portion of programming on WBSM brought to you by South Coast Health advanced medicine more care back to Barry Richard on WBSM call 508-996-0500 I was drinking some wine all right 249 on a Friday afternoon 508-996-0500 is our phone number thanks for joining us today appreciate it very much it's back to the phones and you're next in WBSM good afternoon hello hello you're on the air hey how's it going my friend Barry this is the formerly Westport Johnny here hey former Westport Johnny how you doing been a while now you can call me in New Hampshire Johnny I've been up and I'm one of the political refugees that fought Massachusetts probably almost three years ago now and where I'm sorry where are you now in New Hampshire Oh up in New Hampshire's in New Hampshire Johnny yeah yeah unfortunately I still work down in the South Coast you know but I go down you know two or three nights a week down there and the company I work for put me on salary but then I flee back up here to New Hampshire so where abouts in New Hampshire are you living in Ossipi you know right between Rochester and Conway okay yep yep on that route 16 stretch yeah my son's up in London Derry oh okay yeah one of the best moves I've ever made you know I had to buy my first house couldn't buy anything down there yeah wait you know priced right out of the market yeah but uh you know for 300 grand I got almost four acres of property up here a house two car garage detached and it's quiet you know I'm glad you checked in because you know what you I often say this when I don't hear from somebody for a while we always wonder what happened to people you know you call in and all of a sudden you're not there anymore people like is he dead is he uh you know did he is he in prison or did he you know what I mean so I'm so happy one of the best things WBSM got was the the app years ago I can listen to you guys anywhere and I enjoy listening to you guys and you know even though you guys don't hear from us all the time it's like I'm always hearing from my friends over there awesome mr. McCarthy yeah well you guys are our friends too and you know we appreciate talking to you and we've got like a little family of people that call in on a regular basis and it's always good to hear you know how people are doing and everything so hey Barry you got me thinking when you're just talking about the lockdowns I don't know what it was five six years ago the whole mosquito hysteria you know somebody would get Tripoli or West Nile virus yep and I remember it would be all over the news and people would be all freaked out they wouldn't go sit out in the yards in the evening I don't go to meetings inside and it was it was hot out in this room and I'm like can we open up a window and every you can't we're gonna get West Nile I mean like a handful of cases and I'm like what's going on here and it really seemed like they were priming the pump just getting everybody scared right before Kovac and then what cold it happened it's like everybody you know the Ebola scare remember the Ebola scare maybe 10 12 years ago and I can remember that like it was yesterday CNN breaking news and you see people walking around with the you know the hazmat suits on and everything we're all gonna die from Ebola there's no cure you got to run you gotta hide and and the swine flu swine flu is another one Legionnaires disease really seemed weird because I just kept living my life you know I like to hunt fish I'd be out in the woods watching mosquitoes bite me whatever you know I just looked at it as I live my life you know and I'm not gonna be afraid of Tripoli or Lyme's disease you know because I'm just not that kind of guy I'm not gonna be hiding in the house all day well it's just one of those things that they use to try to scare people into doing stuff and to getting control over them and the media is only too happy to you know to fan the flames and move the agenda along Johnny I gotta hold you my friend because I gotta get a break in and I gotta get into the news great to hear from you again I'm glad to see that you're not dead or in jail so what you know New Hampshire is a great place and stay in touch with us give us a call again so that we can hear from you again thank you Johnny 508-996-0500 hey listen the force realty is growing and looking for motivated agents to join the team agents who value collaboration support and shared success will feel right at home this isn't a corporate environment it's a family style atmosphere where professional growth truly matters whether experienced or just getting started agents receive the tools the guidance and the encouragement needed to succeed build a career with a team that feels like home love force realty is the place for you contact my good friend Bill Bashant at the Bashant group.com and get working today we don't always do themes that every now and then we do but every song we played today had Saturday it was about Saturday had Saturday in it so since tomorrow is Saturday right and it's supposed to be a nice day Sunday and that's a good but anyway so we conclude the conversation today talking about a subject matter that I think we will talk about for many many years to come and it's all about power and it's all about control of your life and it's all about what politicians particularly the liberals tried to do they tried to take control of your life not necessarily so that you follow their example because they have their own examples they do their own thing but they think they know best what you should do and they try to force you to do certain things and you know it's a I think we all got pretty smart with the COVID thing I think we all once everybody got over the fear and looked back and said oh my god what did they just do to us I think they may have a very difficult time doing it again all right IP vanish protects every device you own your phone your laptop your smart TV if it connects to the Internet it should be protected IP vanish encrypts your connection and masks your IP address helping keep your browsing private at home and on public Wi-Fi and with no device limits one account covers everything stream with added privacy browse securely connect with confidence online protection made simple right now save 83% off the two-year plan get started today at IP vanish comm slash audio and take control of your privacy with IP vanish